Geographically Yours

Defining Main Street: The Pet Groomers.  Would you say that pet groomers and their ilk are recent additions to Main Street or old standbys? ...

Defining Main Street: The Real Estate Office.  As we review of the elements of Main Street, let's not ignore the more mundane: establish...

Defining Main Street: The Jewelry Store.  Locally owned and operated jewelry stores seem to survive longer on Main Street than most other op...

The Bullards Bar Dam was built in the early 1960s to provide flood control on the Yuba River system. Is it located in Northern California or...

Shouldn't sea gulls be white? This one is probably a youngling who hasn't molted yet. What a view he must have and what stories he c...

That looks like a metal sliding board (not plastic). And, it is without curves or bumps (which are meant to slow you down). So retro! Maybe ...

What happened on Good Friday? A dark turn of events that was totally unexpected less than a week before. Jesus, after entering Jerusalem tr...

Charlie Brown and Snoopy have been planning April Fool's tricks all year, and this is the day they plan to use one on you! Beware! As fo...

Odds  and Evens,  Ones  and Twos,  Singles  and Doubles, Which one be You? Here is a loner-artist (aren't they all?) who may be proficie...

"The gasoline that flowed through this collection of antique pumps found in San Juan Capistrano, California, transformed the American u...

What will get rid of this infestation of dinosaurs? (a) They will devour each other. (b) They will be decimated by oxidation. (c) They will ...

In the post-modern age, everything that is utilitarian should also be aesthetic. That goes for big things like skyscrapers (think: 'glas...

Happy new year, for sure. May the likes of 2020 never be seen again! Now, let's see what the new normal looks like around the country an...

♫ These Are a Few of My Favorite Things ♫ ~ Lighthouses : Tourism waves ebb and flow, but lighthouses are always popular. Why are they so ps...

Windmills by the thousands provide Palm Springs (and environs) with electicity all year long. They take advantage of the Westerly winds gush...

Where would you file a photo like this? Maybe in the folder labeled Poetry of Place. It seems so SoCal. Palm tree imprisoned behind a chain-...

Bike sales have soared during coronavirus times. No one wants to be cooped up at home all the time, and no one wants to be exercising in ...

San Deigo wants to be a world city of the first order, but right up the road is Los Angeles. How can California's Mexican gateway com...

For World Elephant Day, let's consider their proboscidean cousins, mastodons and mammoths, both of which are extinct. Elephants may f...

What can you carry around with you in a purloined shopping cart? Lots of things recreational. Yet, it seems as if recreation is not his p...